Day in photos: Dec. 27, 2012

South Korean elementary and middle school students chant together at a winter military camp in Ansan.

AP

A ring-tailed lemur keeps a close eye on a tomato frog as zookeepers perform the annual inventory at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany.

ZUMA Press

Anti-missle flares fly from an Israeli AH-64 Apache longbow helicopter during a graduation ceremony for Israeli pilots over the Hatzerim air base.

AFP/Getty Images

An Afghan man and his goat brave the snow in Kabul where temperatures hovered around freezing.

AP

Judges inspect a patient, adorned elephant during a beauty contest at the Elephant Race in Chitwan, Nepal.

Reuters

Workers secure the last two crystal panels that make up the giant Waterford ball that will mark the new year from the top of One Times Square in New York.

UPI

A group of people walk beneath a bridge on a frozen lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing.

AFP/Getty Images

Saudi youths get some air on sand boards in the desert near Tabuk.

Reuters

Snow blankets a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.

Reuters

Japan’s new Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera bows from the podium after giving an inauguration address to ministry officials on his first day.

AP

Children use a boat to navigate the flooded byways in Rantau Panjang, Malaysia. By this morning, 14,000 had been evacuated the flooded areas.

Reuters

Indian protesters chant amid continuing demonstrations in support of women’s rights after a woman was raped on a moving bus earlier this month. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh responded with a pledge to protect the nation’s women.